Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.
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I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.
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When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.
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My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
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I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
